Urban Space

With countries turning to the right, progressives face the challenge of keeping their support in cities.

For people living in cities during the lockdown, space was a major concern, both in and outside the home.

The pandemic has exposed how access to quality, safe housing is a major issue in Eastern European cities.

Richard Florida’s critical assessment of inequality within and between cities diagnoses the problem, but fails to offer real answers.

The layout and design of our cities excludes certain people from certain places and opportunities.

From centres of economic activity to amusement parks for tourists, what is happening to our cities and what space is left for their citizens?

A new housing phenomenon is spreading across Europe’s cities – is it a Bohemian, win-win solution or does it exemplify the entrenchment of precarity into new spheres?

Cities contain most of the world’s population and innovation. But are we in danger of over-stating the power of cities to cure all our contemporary ills?

Social geographer Daniela Festa explores the commons within the context of neoliberal expansion in Italy.

LabGov, the Laboratory for the governance of the commons in Italy, aims to foster innovative forms of public collaboration in the city of Bologna and beyond.